Today with Sean O'Rourke

Today With Sean O Rourke Thursday 1 May 2014

Gerry Adams Questioning

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams continues to be questioned this morning at Antrim police station in connection with the abduction, murder and disappearance of Belfast mother of 10 Jean McConville back in 1972. Mr Adams presented himself voluntarily to the PSNI’s serious crime branch last night and was then arrested.

Joining Sean was Sinn Fein MLA Alex Maskey

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Homelessness

We are in the middle of a homelessness and housing crisis in Ireland. Almost 90,000 people are currently on the waiting list for social housing and one in five of those has been on the waiting list for more than five years.

Meanwhile, demand for homeless support services has increased sharply.

Sean was joined by Simon Brook, Head of Policy with the Housing Agency Clúid, and Niamh Randall, National Spokesperson for the Simon Communities in Ireland.

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Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code

By Michael Lewis (Allen Lane)

Michael Lewis wrote a much publicised Vanity Fair article in 2011 examining what led to Ireland’s financial collapse and why there was a seeming lack of anger among Irish people who had been ‘screwed by their banks and governments’. He has just released a new book outlining how the stock market is rigged to benefit banks and skim from investors, and how the ongoing lack of transparency and understanding of complex financial markets will lead to many more crashes.

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Can Research Eliminate Cancer

Cancer rates are expected to increase over the next six years and it is estimated that by 2020, 40,000 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in Ireland each year. The role of research and how it can eliminate cancer was the main topic of discussion at a free public event entitled ‘Can Research Eliminate Cancer?’ organised by the Irish Cancer Society yesterday in Dublin and Sean was joined by Head of Research at the Irish Cancer Society, Prof. John FitzPatrick.